What one book would you recommend someone to read if they asked what the greatest book of all time was?
atlas shrugged
The Tao Te Ching, probably
>>7806983
I'd post a photo of a girl with a transvestite's face
Fag
Moby Dick and The Karamazov Brothers are some solid 'greatest book of all time' contenders
id give some flippant, ironic answer thatd protect my actual views and presumable values from scrutiny, like "oh heh i dunno i hear rl stine's haunted mask is pretty hot" and then wed laugh about it and id change the subject and hopefully theyd forget and not press me for a real answer that could make me look stupid or criticisable
if i was at gunpoint forced to be sincere i guess i'd go with some safe thing i don't actually think like "hmm perhaps hamlet"
While no means the most influential book of all time, it is certainly one of the greatest in its genre.
>>7806983
Novel: War and Peace
Poem: The Divine Comedy
Play: Hamlet
A Hundred Years of Solitude imo
The Illiad, The Republic or Paradise Lost
The Stranger
>>7806983The Bible
Siddhartha.
>>7808165
That's not even good as far as fantasy writing goes.
>>7808178
w e w
If Taylor Swift was a book, what book would she be?
>>7808191
My dream diary desu
>>7808191
obnoxiously attractive
might as well be a filled dripping heroin needle in front of a restrained junkie
fuck you taylor swift
>>7806983
The Tunnel.
Novel: The Trial
Play: Hamlet
Poem: Paradife Loft
>>7808290
>f
Whew lad
>>7808248
I had a dream about her the other night, it was great. She was a princess.
>>7806983
Don Quixote
obviously moby dick
The Birds, The Frogs, & The Mosquitoes
>>7806983
The Martian.
>>7808401
except that she fucks black dudes.
>>7809865
Filthy lies from the Jewish media
>>7806999
Why even reply to the thread?
>>7808191
>The berenstein bears
who is that semen demon?
>>7809887
Berenstain
>>7810940
Still fucking gets me
>>7810826
Taylor Swift's bestie.
>>7806983
probably moby dick, just for raw power
karlie
>>7806999
This is the man of today
I would want to say Gravity's Rainbow but I would probably say Moby-Dick.
East of Eden. I've been telling people about it for years, and so far, no other book has captivated me so much that I would even consider switching it for Eden.
Is Karlie the ubermensch? She's literally perfect in every way.
>>7811986
I read Grapes recently and I liked it.
Now you got me hyped for Eden.
>>7806987
baite
>>7806994
Whooooo man, stop joking. Moby dick is the worst book i have ever read. It's shit
>>7811996
>>7811991
Man, I'm halfway through Grapes and so far, it's really good but nowhere in the scope of East of Eden. That book is a manichean masterpiece, it contains all the aspects of human experience - from love to hate, beauty to disgust, comfort to pain, hope to apathy, knowledge to ignorance - and it knits them and contrasts them together. All while being extremely readable, with great lyrical descriptions and living and breathing dialogues.
Brothers Karamazov comes nowhere close - it has great passages, but far too few and far too much apart (buffered by boring slog). Moby Dick comes close, but it still can't contest.
